17 September 2005: Irredentismo Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, 1914 Ink, pastel and paper collage (218 x 278) Montagna + Vallate + Strade x Joffre (Mountains + Valleys + Streets x Joffre) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, 1915 Free word composition broadsheet Tribute to the Italian Guido Guidi who, in an Italian Aircraft, Beat the World Height Record (7,950M) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, 1916 Ink, watercolour and paper collage (350 x 265) Thanks to a tip from Karl Kempton, I found the artworks above at Jarrod Hopfer's Futurism Presentation. I stole them from there as examples of early vispo-related works. The top two seem to me full-scale visual poems, the third more a labeled illumage--but still a genuine visual poem, I guess. It would seem that Marinetti deserves as much credit for introducing modern visual poetry as Apollinaire, although Apollinaire seems to have published his first visual poem before Marinetti published his first by some two years.

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